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Christmas Cactus Stigma Explorations at 50X

| Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 12:17 AM



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I know that when I look at plants under a Foldscope I tend to go for the leaves and the pollen. This time I decided to take a look at the stigma of the flower. I will share images of the stigma under different lighting conditions and magnifications over a series of posts. Enjoy!

This post will focus on the images I captured using the 50X lens with my Foldscope 2.0. I used lighting from a lightbox and the LED light module. There were so many beautiful images and features enhanced by the different lighting techniques.

These were taken using LED lighting:


These images were captured using lightbox lighting:


Next I will share the images I captured with the 140X lens...



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Type of Sample
plants
Foldscope Lens Magnification
50x

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